In this Flash tutorial you will learn how to animate filters with ActionScript. This can be added to a variety of objects in Flash including Movie Clips, Buttons & Text. In this example I will place a photo in a Movie Clip and apply a Glow Filter. The Glow Filter gives the photo an soft frame effect. If you click on the image the soft glow animates to envelopes the image. If you move your mouse away the filter will animate back to a soft frame.

Flash Movie Clip with an animated Glow Filter. Click and roll over the image

To keep the ActionScript simple I have used only one filters but the code can easily be adapted to use with any number or combination of filters. You will see that the code is very straight forward and easy to change.

Important Cross Ref:This tutorial shows you all the ActionScript but it only briefly describes how to apply this to an object within Flash or how to edit the parameter settings. If you are not familiar with this I suggest that you return here after first reading the tutorial: Creating Filters with ActionScript